Lionel Messi even winks better than Cristiano Ronaldo

Lionel Messi managed to destroy Cristiano Ronaldo’s self-confidence even before Barcelona defeated Real Madrid 2-0 in El Clasico at the weekend. The Argentine offered a pre-match wink to football’s most famous winker, as if to say ‘I’m the biggest winker on this pitch’.

And so it proved. There is no footage of a post-match ‘you’ve been had’ wink, but we would like to think there was one.

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